follow / no follow links

[Harvey]

Is there a simple way for me to make specific links that I (alone) post do follow links?

I believe that by default all links posted in Nabble forums are no follow (is this correct?)

[Pedro]

Harvey44 wrote

I believe that by default all links posted in Nabble forums are no follow (is this correct?)

Yes, they are "no follow" by default.

Harvey44 wrote

Is there a simple way for me to make specific links that I (alone) post do follow links?

We can make all links that an user group post to be "follow".
Edit "node_message_as_html" macro, adding the line 12. Here we are saving the author of the message:

<override_macro name="node_message_as_html" requires="node">
    <n.if.is_post>
        <then>
            <n.harvey_post_block.>
                <n.global_set_var name="harvey_post_author" value="[n.owner/]" />
                <n.regex_replace_all. pattern="[n.trim_regex/]" replacement="[n.lt/]br/[n.gt/]">
                    <n.node_message_block.message.message_as_html />
                </n.regex_replace_all.>
            </n.harvey_post_block.>
        </then>
        <else>
            <n.global_set_var name="harvey_post_author" value="[n.owner/]" /> 
            <n.node_message_block.message.message_as_html />
        </else>
    </n.if.is_post>
</override_macro> 

Create a user group called, for example, "follow" and add yourself, or the user that can post "follow" links, in this group.
Then, edit "process_message_html" macro. Here you have to check if the author of the message is not in the "follow" group, so we will add the "no follow" attribute in these cases:

<override_macro name="process_message_html" requires="html_list">
    <n.process_raw_tags/>
    <n.process_embed regex="[n.embed_regex/]" />
    <n.process_file_tags/>
    <n.apply_message_security/>
    <n.process_quotes wrote="[t][n.author/] wrote[/t]"/>
    <n.process_email/>
    <n.set_target_to_top/>
    <n.set_local_user.global_var name="harvey_post_author" />
    <n.if.not.local_user.is_in_group group="follow">
        <then.add_nofollow/>
    </n.if.not.local_user.is_in_group>    
    <n.process_smilies/>
</override_macro> 

[Harvey]

That is pretty cool, but I only want to post maybe 20 links a year that are follow, so I'd spend a lot of time adding rel="nofollow" to all my links.

I want my signature to have follow links and a few others.

Can we create a follow class that only I can use?

[Pedro]

What do you think of create another user, for example "Harvey2", and add only this user to the "follow" group? So, when you ewant to post a "follow" link you would use Harvey2.

[Harvey]

I don't think that would work.  I'm Harvey!  :)

My forum members would not understand, and the last thing I want to do is get into a discussion of follow/nofollow links. That has to be behind the scenes.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Pedro <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] <[hidden email]> wrote:

What do you think of create another user, for example "Harvey2", and add only this user to the "follow" group? So, when you ewant to post a "follow" link you would use Harvey2.

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[Pedro]

We are going to think in a better solution.

[Harvey]

OK thanks.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Harvey, I made this change for you. Now you should be able to post rel="follow" links like this:

<a href="..." rel="follow">...</a>

The rel attribute should be preserved. Please note:
1) This only works on your forum (we can copy the NAML to the mag/dir if you want);
2) Only admins can do that (links from other users will always be nofollow)

Please try that and let me know if you see issues.

[Harvey]

That sounds great, I will test asap!  Thx

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Hugo <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Harvey, I made this change for you. Now you should be able to post rel="follow" links like this:

<a href="..." rel="follow">...</a>

The rel attribute should be preserved. Please note:
1) This only works on your forum (we can copy the NAML to the mag/dir if you want);
2) Only admins can do that (links from other users will always be nofollow)

Please try that and let me know if you see issues.

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[Harvey]

That seems to work quite nicely.  I'd like to peek at the code if you can name the macro for me.

Thank you!

[Hugo <Nabble>]

The main macro is the "process_message_html" (see the accept_rel_follow attribute in the add_nofollow command). But to make it work, we also changed the "node_message_as_html" macro in order to save the post author in a variable.

[Harvey]

Do you think you could make this change in my other apps?

[Hugo <Nabble>]

I changed the NAML code of your magazine and directory to also allow rel=follow attributes for admins. You can test it and let us know if you have issues.